group action - action taken by a group of people

might-have-been - an event that could have occurred but never did

nonevent - an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected

happening, natural event, occurrence - an event that happens

social event - an event characteristic of persons forming groups

miracle - a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of God

migration - (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

makeup - an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later"

Fall - the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

circumstance - a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity

Einstein's theory of relativity, relativity, relativity theory, theory of relativity - (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts

physical phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy

phenomenon - any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

offspring, materialisation, materialization - something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"

aftereffect - any result that follows its cause after an interval

aftermath, wake, backwash - the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

bandwagon effect - the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity; "in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate"

brisance - the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion

butterfly effect - the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago

by-product, byproduct - a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence

change - the result of alteration or modification; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"

coattails effect - (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same party; "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"

Coriolis effect - (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere

dent - an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it made a dent in my bank account"

domino effect - the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)

harvest - the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"

wallop, impact - a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"

influence - the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"

knock-on effect - a secondary or incidental effect

offshoot, outgrowth, branch, offset - a natural consequence of development

product - a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue"

placebo effect - any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs

position effect - (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene produced by changing its location in a chromosome

repercussion, reverberation - a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"

response - a result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa"

fallout, side effect - any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"

spillover - (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure